Digital Only Subscription
Read the digital SMART Edition of The Times-Tribune on your PC or mobile device, and have 24/7 access to breaking news, local sports, contests, and more at thetimes-tribune.com or on our mobile apps.

Digital Services
Have news alerts sent to your mobile device, read the Smart Edition sign up for daily newsletters, activate your all access, enter contests, take quizzes, download our mobile apps and see the latest e-circulars.

About 500 plush dogs and cats are spread out with help from Lackawanna County Sheriff’s Department Cpl. Corey Cavalieri on Thursday at the Aaron Center in Dickson City, with more stuffed animals to be donated in the next few weeks.
(read more)

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Joseph P. McDonald manned the switchboard at Fort Shafter in Hawaii when he received the alarming message that radar had detected a large number of planes approaching from the north, heading fast for Oahu.
(read more)

Published: November 28, 2012

Article Tools

CARBONDALE - There will be $10,000 of cash prizes at stake Friday at the annual Pioneer City Christmas Ball.

Each year, proceeds from the event benefit local nonprofit organizations. This year, The Greater Carbondale YMCA, FCR Letterman's Program, the Carbondale Kiwanis Organization and Marley's Mission are the benefactors.

Tickets for the evening, which includes cocktails, dinner, an open bar and live entertainment, are $100 per person or $140 per couple. The ball will be held at the Heart Lake Lodge from 6 p.m to 11 p.m. For more information, contact Brian Durkin at 499-5445, Mayor Justin Taylor at 282-4044, ext. 13, or Bill Farber Jr. at 262-5853.

Driver uninjured after car in pond

JACKSON TWP. - No one was injured when a car crashed into a pond in Susquehanna County on Tuesday morning.

State police at Gibson said Elicier Rodriguez, 57, of Palmerton, was driving his 1997 Chrysler LHS on Route 92 in Jackson Twp. when he failed to negotiate a curve and traveled off the road an into a pond.

Mr. Rodriguez's car was completely submerged, but he was uninjured, police said.

Woman injured in Susquehanna crash

LIBERTY TWP. - One woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a one-car crash in Susquehanna County on Tuesday morning.

Sara Muskas, 26, of Hallstead, was taken to Montrose General Hospital after she was traveling east on Route 1022 and failed to negotiate a curve, traveling off the road and striking an embankment, state police at Gibson said.

No charges were filed in the incident.

Authority will save $7,000 in billing

SCOTT TWP. - Sewer Authority board members Tuesday voted to approve a change in billing that will save the authority at least $7,100 in 2013.

At a Scott Twp. special meeting, board members announced their decision to switch from a monthly sewer bill to a coupon booklet, a move that will cut billing costs and provide the authority with some reserve funding to help pay costs associated with the $23.8 million sewer project.

Under the current system, it cost the authority 62 cents to ship each of the approximately 1,250 monthly bills, totaling around $8,500 a year. Meanwhile, sending out the coupon booklet will only cost the authority around $1,400.

"It's a big savings for us, and we will continue to do all we can to help the ratepayers," Supervisor and sewer authority board member Michael Giannetta said.

West Pittston faces FEMA surcharge

WEST PITTSTON - Repeated letters and calls from Pennsylvania's two senators, Bob Casey Jr. and Pat Toomey, to top administrators at the Federal Emergency Management Agency might not be able to save West Pittston from a probationary term that would impose a $50 surcharge on federal flood-insurance renewals in the borough beginning Saturday.

FEMA has said the agency had little "legal latitude" under Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations, to postpone the sanctions.

FEMA informed borough officials in February 2011 - seven months before the flood - that its floodplain management ordinance did not meet agency standards and its enforcement of building codes within the floodplain was unsatisfactory.

The borough council last month voted unanimously to adopt a revised ordinance and hired a floodplain manager and code enforcement officer.

We welcome user discussion on our site, under the following guidelines:

To comment you must first create a profile and sign-in with a verified DISQUS account or social network ID. Sign up here.

Comments in violation of the rules will be denied, and repeat violators will be banned. Please help police the community by flagging offensive comments for our moderators to review. By posting a comment, you agree to our full terms and conditions. Click here to read terms and conditions.